Introductory Survey Textbook Denied Tenure Following Decision to Use 'Too Many Active Verbs'
Department says the text's readability constitutes a methodological error.
The Historian's Hindsight
Peer-reviewed yesterday, disputed today
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Researcher’s Career Threatened by Single Missing Folder in 'Unsorted Miscellaneous' Box
A finding aid is a promise about an object nobody has held yet.
Public Historian’s Exhibition Success Undermined by Single Footnote in Local Newspaper
Label seven drew eleven thousand visitors, then one footnote on a Saturday.
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Departmental Chair Proposes Shifting 'Early Modern' Boundary to Secure Tenure-Track Funding
The era did not move. The count did.
Lazlo Foundation Rejects Grant Proposal for Lacking 'Sufficiently Nuanced Periodization' of the Late Bronze Age
A funding body decides five centuries was one decade too few.
Dissertation Defense Halts as Candidate Retreats into 'Hermeneutics of Silence' to Avoid Answering Question on Primary Sources
Committee asks for a quotation; candidate supplies a theory of quotation.
Conference Panelist Interprets 'Brief Question' as Formal Challenge to Entire Life’s Work
Forty-one seconds from microphone to monograph defense.
Historian Discovers Entire Sub-Field Was Based on a Misfiled 1920s Tax Receipt
A treaty sub-field rests on a miller's tax receipt.
New Monograph Prompts Decade-Long Dispute Over Footnote 14’s Treatment of Sub-Clause B
A sub-clause's punctuation redraws a county's periodization map.
From Dara O'Rourke
Recent Historiographical Turn Moves Entirely Into 'Sub-Sub-Subaltern' Perspectives, Leaving Primary Sources Bereft of Meaning
The seminar has not quoted the register yet.
Correction Notice for 'The Fall of Rome' Triggers Immediate Resignation of Entire Department Chair
The erratum was one line. The resignation was four pages.
From Bora Aksu
New Periodization Model Shifts Early Middle Ages Back by Forty-Two Years to Accommodate Tenure Candidate
The vote was taken as a motion about wall signage.
Archivist Denies Access to Box 42C Citing 'Unauthorized Marginalia' in Finding Aid
The 1984 pencil note is now the collection.
From Lourdes Manalo
Digital Humanities Lab Accused of Over-Indexing 'General Vibe' of the Carolingian Renaissance
The model was trained on historians' prose about the manuscripts, not the manuscripts.
Reviewer 2 Demands Primary Source Proof that 14th-Century Peasants Actually Felt 'Vaguely Anxious'
The reviewer accepts that the feeling happened. He wants it notarized.
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